• Jesus_666@lemmy.world
      8·
      25 days ago

      “Tiefling” looks like a German word, “tief” meaning “deep”. As a matter of fact, that’s exactly where they got the name from, referring to their “lower planes” heritage. And it’s in German because, well, no idea. Maybe Sigil has a significant German minority?

      • Demdaru@lemmy.world
        2·
        24 days ago

        German cuz spoken deutsch is the most evil sounding language, duh. Beaten only by latin sung in choir. Or latin / runic writing.

      • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        Hunh. I’d always assumed it was from Teufel 🤷🏼‍♂️